<TITLE>18. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 How can we set still? What must we do? You see, we think, "Oh, if I was back there then..." You'd felt the same way you do now. It's greater now than it is then, 'cause there it's on one man; here it's on the all people that'll receive Him. It was for one man Solomon. Now, it's for whosoever will let him come. Amen.
A greater than Solomon is here showing the sign of His resurrection. He was made flesh, and died to take away your sin, rose again on the third day, and come back in the form of the Holy Ghost, and the works that He did, He's doing right among the people, the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hallelujah. I say, "Hallelujah," means "praise our God." Oh, yes. He's here.
No wonder Jesus said, "She'll rise in the day of the judgment and condemn this gener..." Besides that, look what she said to Shreveport, and a lot of these places, the Pentecostal churches.
"Not only that, but blessed is the one's that's with you, that stand and minister with you. Blessed are they, for these say--they see these things happening day after day. Blessed are they. Blessed are the men that's with you, that stand by you, to see this gift operating day after day."

L-69 Jesus said she'll rise in the judgment and condemn that generation (That's right.) and condemn this generation; for how much more will she condemn this one than to that one, because look at the much more light that we've got since that day: death, burial, resurrection, the Holy Ghost Itself right with us? See what I mean? It's too common. That's what--that's what the Holy Spirit is to the Pentecostal people; It's too common.
An old man one time that lived in the interior, was on his road down to the seashore. And he'd write books, and he'd often wrote of the sea how beautiful it was. One day on his road down, he went down to the seashore, and he met an old salt coming from the sea. And he said, "Where goest thou, my good man?"
He said, "Oh, I'm going to the sea. I've never seen it in my life." And he said, "I want to see its big briny white waves as they dash. I want to smell the salt air. I want to hear the cry of the sea gull."
And the old salt stood there and looked, chewed on his pipe stem a little bit, said, "I was born on it. I been on it for fifty years. I don't see nothing so thrilling about it," and went on. That's it. He was so used to it, it wasn't thrilling to him any more.

L-70 That's what's the matter with the Church today. You've seen so much of it; it doesn't thrill you any more. The Holy Spirit's so good to visit you time after time, after time, after time, and we forget it.
In Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago there's a mother packing a little baby along. And she, walking along there, and she was shaking little toys, you know, saying, "See darling? See darling?" Then she'd get something else. "See darling, see darling?" The little baby just kept staring.
And after while it--it kind of disturbed the people in the store. Finally she picked up a little bell that jingled. She said, "Look darling, look, look, look, look. Mama's darling, look." And the little baby just stared out, and she fell across the counter.

L-71 And the people come to help her. They said, "What's the matter?"
She said, "Oh, my little boy here not long ago," said, "just started to staring right out in space." And said, "I took him to the doctor awhile ago, and he said he was better, but he isn't." Said, "Nothing will attract him." Said, "Things that ought to attract a little boy his age, it doesn't attract him; he just sets and stares in space."
How true that is with the church today. God shook every kind of a gift He can before the church, and they still set and stare, looking for something else. Hallelujah. That's right. God's going to get tired shaking gifts before you after while. We sit paralyzed.
See an Oral Roberts, and so forth, a healing the sick, and great signs and wonders of the resurrected Messiah, and the people set and say, "Well, I don't know." See?


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